حَمِضweary

Example sentences

• فإن الأذن مجة والقلب حمض

  For the ear grows bored and the heart grows weary

  حَمِضٌ — weary. The predicate said of the heart, in the -un ending and with no verb 'to be' joining them; it asserts the heart's wearying. Arabic links topic and predicate directly.

  From: Stories That Soften the Heart →

• إن الأذن مجاجة والقلب حمض

  Indeed, the ear grows weary and the heart grows weary.

  حَمِضٌ — grows weary. The second predicate, describing the heart with no linking verb. It sits in the nominative, the ending Arabic gives the descriptive half of this kind of emphatic sentence. The pairing simply places the quality beside the subject and leaves 'is' to be understood.

  From: Stories That Soften the Heart →